He stared at the money, the bills crisp and new, the way they crackled when he flipped through them. He could buy a new guitar, finally. His old one was falling apart. He’d been working two jobs, saving, but it wasn't enough. He wouldn't let this slip away.

He knew he should try to find the owner. But the thought of all that money, how it could change things… He held the wallet tighter. His knuckles were white. He wouldn't be bullied by his conscience. Not now.

Emotion: stubborn

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 0.80 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 3.73

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stubborn. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 stubborn stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stubborn emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stubborn vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.780
l0.685
la0.605
either0.580
a0.501
Suppressed:
难以-0.435
终于-0.419
顿时-0.405
竟然-0.396
wondering-0.391